WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

I don’t know about you guys, but I love hacks that make my day easier and life more fun. By running a busy freelance writing business I always have to look for ways to save time while keeping my work commitment.

We all face those issues I’m sure, whether you are a blogger, Internet marketer, artist, graphic designer or else. The secret to getting things done effectively is to use applications and tools that allow us to save time while staying organized.

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If you are a Firefox and Gmail user you will love the GTDInbox addon for Firefox. For freaks who like the idea of total domination to get organized, this addon can help you to become the next Zen Gmail master.

The application is pretty straight forward. You download it for free and then once you login to your Gmail account you will be presented with an initial instruction.

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Pingbacks and Trackbacks is one of the perhaps least understood concepts by new bloggers and one that generates the most questions. Why is it? I think it is mainly because everyone heard about the power it gives to the bloggers but not everyone understood how to use it correctly.

Add the abundance of the trackback SPAM to the mix and it creates a brew many choke on. In this post I’m not planning replicate the efforts of other people but instead share links to The Best Of The Best resources that should teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about using Trackbacks and Pingbacks and Protecting your own blog from the Trackback SPAM…

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While Automated Blog Profits is not one of my favorite topics I get so many questions on it, I decided to answer it once and for all and do it based on my personal experience. But before I will even proceed I need to make a disclaimer:

What you will create as result of following ALL or SOME recommendations in this guide WILL NOT make you an authority blogger. It will earn you income (I have tested each part of the strategy) but how much will depend on your efforts as with any internet venture.

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Everybody wants to make money with blogging these days. But before long most bloggers realize that it actually takes a bit of elbow grease to get there. While many try their luck at niche marketing, others yet travel as affiliate marketers. Some succeed and most will fail.

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Do you ever feel like you need a make-over design on your blog? You know, the whole deal with all the trimmings? I do right now and spent hours in the past month to find the perfect theme to do it.

I had a clear vision of what I wanted and while I saw several themes that offered parts of that whole picture, it was never exactly what I wanted.

Until…

I found it. Finally.

Task accomplished. Next.

Well, not really, the fun has only just started

A theme make over takes a lot of planning and ideas for it to come out in a satisfactory manner in the end. Admittedly we can just slap on a free theme and leave it at that.

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Since I have made a small contribution to Brians Threaded Comments (v. 1.5.18) plugin, mainly in a form of suggestion I feel responcible for sharing how to Force Brians Threaded Comments work nicely with WordPress 2.5 plus and SezWho 2.1 plugin.

I know it might seem like a lot of acronyms but they will all make sense once I have describe the problem and then will provide a simple solution…

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WordPress Web 2.0 SpotEr now uses power of SezWho 2.0 to build community. I have seen it implemented on Andy Beard’s blog for a while now and while I liked many aspects I wasn’t 100% convinced it was right tool for me. SezWho 2.0 release solved all the issues I had with service and now it is a proud part of my blog plugins.

As blogging becomes more and more popular and people are taking a dive into the process it becomes more and more important to be able to evaluate reputation of the person you might be engaged into conversation with on a particular blog. Credibility score across multiple platforms to build stronger communities is now possible…

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With so much talk about SEO and importance of optimization of your blog pages to rank well in the Search Engines I have seen one most important factor also been most overlooked - Link Exchange!

Number Of Links pointing back to your blog or site is still one of the most important factors that Google uses to determine how well it should rank your content and assign a Page Rank. Link juice passed from one blog to another through a Do Follow link means a lot in terms of getting better positions and in this post I want to invite you to use a free resource to boost a number of incoming links (backlinks) to your blog AND you get to pick WHICH!

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